Katy did its part in pushing Cy-Fair near playoff elimination. Cy-Fair pushed back.

Cy-Fair defeated Katy in a 6-4 win in the teams' Region III-5A area round meeting on Thursday at Katy High School.

The Bobcats got some clutch hitting in this one. Carley Ruffino's two-RBI single with the bases loaded in the seventh broke a 4-4 tie.

Christina Biggerstaff held on for the win in the bottom half of the inning. Katy's Kourtney Coveney took the loss.

"I think the key was still our offense," Cy-Fair head coach Debbie Burrow said. "We made them make some errors, they made us make some errors. We just got a few more runs at the right time when we needed it."

Thanks to Alissa Dalton's RBI double, Ruffino's RBI triple and a sac fly for Hannah Moore, Cy-Fair took a 3-0 lead into the bottom of the fourth.

That's when Katy came alive with Corey Burrough's RBI double, followed by runs off a wild pitch and an error.

Merris Schroder's RBI triple put the Bobcats back ahead in the fifth, but the RBI single from Katy's Alison Skinner tied the game at four heading into the sixth.

The table was set for Ruffino in the seventh with a single from Lyndsay Gagner, an error that allowed Schroder on base and an intentional walk to Dalton.

Aside from the key hits, Burrow also noted Biggerstaff's performance in the circle.

"She got hit a little more tonight than she did in our district and I told her that's going to happen," she said. "We're playing better teams each and every day. We've got to be prepared for it."

Cy-Fair gets Seven Lakes in a regional quarterfinal series. Cy-Fair players have talked about "breaking the curse" this year. It's a reference to the program's regional semifinal drought. Despite having some dominant teams in recent years, the Bobcats haven't been that far since 2002.